On May 20th and 21st, 1927 Charles Lindbergh, aka \u201cLucky Lindy\u201d, made history by completing the first solo, nonstop, transatlantic flight; piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. To celebrate the anniversary of Lindy\u2019s achievement we\u2019re showing SOLIDWORKS users how to model a 30\u201d wingspan version of his iconic aircraft. Throughout this series, we\u2019ll fly through lessons on how to work off imported images, and we\u2019ll use a series of extrusions, lofts, and sweeps to model the Spirit of St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Welcome to the final part of our 5 Part series where we are celebrating the anniversary of Charles Lindbergh\u2019s historic feat by modeling his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane. We\u2019ll pick up where we left off in part 4 with a nearly completed half of the aircraft and we\u2019ll begin adding some of the aircraft\u2019s details using some essential modeling techniques, as well as a few advanced techniques like the Circular Pattern command. \u00a0We will wrap up this part of the series by flying through how to add custom appearances and decals to your model.<\/p>\n